Current Affairs – June 19, 2018 – One Liner
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- Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) has supplied around 60,000 tonnes of steel material for the 111-km-long Jiribam-Tupul-Imphal new broad gauge railway project in Manipur.
- The National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) along with IBM, the multinational technology firm, will offer a 12-week online course on blockchain architecture, design and uses.
- A brand new Cathay Pacific Airbus A350-1000 aircraft, which flew from the French city of Toulouse to Hong Kong, was partly powered by a sugarcane-based biofuel.
- Central Water Commission (CWC) into a Collaboration Agreement with Google for effective management of water resources particularly in the field of flood forecasting and dissemination of flood related information to the masses.
- The world’s oldest known critically endangered species Sumatran orangutan, “Puan” has died in an Australian zoo aged 62. It was described as the “grand old lady” of Perth Zoo.
- Google announced the launch of a training programme for journalists, aimed at raising awareness against misinformation and providing new tools to the fourth estate against fake news.
- The Indian Institute of Technology – Banaras Hindu University -IIT-BHU and Amazon Internet Services Private Limited (AISPL) signed a MoU to develop cloud-ready job skills and to help establish a Cloud Research Lab on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML).
- A workshop on Cyber Security Framework for Department of Defence inaugurated by RakshaMantri Smt Nirmala Sitharaman.
- “International Decade for Action: Water for Sustainable Development, 2018-2028” in Tajikistan to discuss key water related issues of sustainable development goals adopted by UN member countries.
- Shri J P Nadda, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare released the National Health Profile (NHP)-2018 prepared by the Central Bureau of Health Intelligence (CBHI).
- National Health Resource Repository (NHRR) – India’s first ever national healthcare facility registry of authentic, standardized and updated geo-spatial data of all public and private healthcare establishments.
- The Union Human Resource Development Minister, Shri Prakash Javadekar launched ‘National Digital Library of India’ developed by IIT Kharagpur on the occasion of National Reading Day in New Delhi.
- Kazhimugam (delta or the place where a river meets the sea) – Perumal Murugan
- Union Minister of Women and Child Development (WCD), Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi launched the “Handbook on legal processes for Police in respect of Crime against Children” in New Delhi.
- Manisha Varun – Mrs. India Universe 2018 pageant
- Sandeep Bakhshi – Chief operating officer of ICICI Bank
- The Telangana police launched a mobile-based messenger application ‘Cop Connect’, to provide real time information to over 60,000 police officers across the State.
- England broke the record for the highest score in a men’s one-day international cricket for the second time in two years at Trent Bridge by scoring 481 for six against Australia.
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